From the first explorers, trappers, Indian traders, hunters, and the settlement of this country by colonial farmers and stock producers, large predators have been killed and some nearly driven to extinction. Large predators have been hunted, trapped and hounded from much of what was once their territory by man in the Lower 48. Don't you find it curious that in 400 some odd years not one, NOT ONE, black pelt exists? Surely some scientific mention would have been made at some point in history of such a creature? Pretty much everything else on the continent has been documented. And that includes some pretty teeny tiny little organisms, even itsy bitsy micro stuff. How'd they miss a 150 pound black mountain lion in all this research and discovery? They seem to be thick as fleas given all the sightings some folks report on the Internet. Yet not one early drawing, not one mention in credible journals, no early photo's, no recent history trail cam video or photo's, no car/black lion collisions... nuttin', nada...
